Comment Re:when doing the "right thing".... (Score 4, Interesting) 101
Still want to run a piece of software that needs to be patched every so often ?
Well, no. And according to the article, they may not have a choice; the agreement comes "with legally-binding assurances that the information will not be used against them". Presumably this would prevent not giving them future contracts on the basis of knowing that their previous work was crap, since at least they owned up to it. How anti-merit of them.
So yes, multifold problems; the system maintainers are going to be very unhappy if they get frequent information about problems for them to deal with, and won't be able to do a thing about it. Sounds like a killer for whatever morale might be left.
And of course, these systems could be in general public use as well, but the public couldn't be informed.
